skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the original poster, but debt can allow you to shift transactions to periods that are most advantageous to you.

Here's an example. Let's say that you as a high wealth individual have some stock. The stock has a value of $10M but you can only realize that value through the sale of the stock.

If you sell the stock right now you have to sell it for the price the market will buy it at and you have to pay taxes on the profit, either income taxes if you've not had the stock for long or capital gains taxes if you've held it for the requisite period.

It is in your interest to optimize your sale so that you pay the least amount in taxes and get the best price per share. You'd love to be able to hold your stock until you can do that, but you need money now. In comes debt.

Someone will probably happily issue you some debt that you can use today as money. You can collateralize that debt with your $10M in paper value and get a nice interest rate.

So you take out $1M in debt and enjoy life and at the end you have to pay back, to keep the math easy, $1.1M. This debt cost you $100k but if by taking on that debt you can sell when the stock price is higher or convert income tax (37%) into capital gains (20%) then the $100k could easily buy you much more than $100k.

In our example if the stock price were the same but all you did was hold the asset long enough to convert it from short term to long term then instead of paying $10M * 37% = $3.7M in taxes, you'd pay $10M * 20% = $2M in taxes. That's a savings of $1.7M on your tax bill.

This is how people with assets can use debt as a tool.
A variation on the pomodoro timer, where you get promoted when the segment ends, but the clock keeps ticking. You have to manually move to the next segment, and the app times actual time spent per zone.

This lets me use this for tracking efficiency, not just structuring the day. I also find it excessively rigid to force myself to stop a work segment on precisely 25 min tick.
Several Python scripts and Chrome extensions to bookmark articles on the web to Pocket and Anki, so that I can be reminded of interesting articles in the future using spaced repetition. These are for personal use, so not completely documented, but anyone interested in using them can email me or open issues on Github.

- https://github.com/telotortium/anki-note-saver - Chrome extension to save articles to Anki

- [telotortium/anki-math-ocr: OCR Anki images using Google Gemini Pro](https://github.com/telotortium/anki-math-ocr)

- [telotortium/anki-year-delay: Reschedules Anki notes with a certain tag into the future.]
(https://github.com/telotortium/anki-year-delay)

- [telotortium/anki-articles-to-org: Export Article notes in Anki as individual Org-mode files to a directory](https://github.com/telotortium/anki-articles-to-org)

- [telotortium/pockexport-to-anki: Create Anki cards from your Pocket saves](https://github.com/telotortium/pockexport-to-anki)
Okay, so, from my current perspective, everything in your comment is flat wrong. Assuming that it isn't, you and I must be talking about different things to have such divergent views.

Upthread was posted, "I want to iterate over UTF-8 codepoints directly. The initial test for a 1-byte sequence is just too simple with a branch and will be hit most of the time."

Compared to this, your proposals require iterating twice, in the context as I understand it: either (1) to convert to UCS-4 and (2) to process; or (1) to establish pointers to the starting UTF-8 code unit of each code point and (2) to process.

Additionally, if you convert to UCS-4/UTF-32, and most of the text is in ASCII, you will roughly quadruple the space required for this conversion. If you establish 32-bit pointers into the UTF-8 string for the starting code unit of each code point, you will also approximately quadruple the space required. Obviously, double that if you're using 64-bit pointers.

By contrast, iterating through a UTF-8 string directly has no such problems, at the expense of slightly more CPU time for each iteration. Such iteration can take the form of:

// Extremely hot codepath. Handling well-formed UTF-8 by macro --> ~4% speedup
#define next(R) ((R[1]>>6!=2) ? (R+1) : (R[2]>>6!=2) ? (R+2) : \
(R[3]>>6!=2) ? (R+3) : (R[4]>>6!=2) ? (R+4) : next_func(R+4))

static const unsigned char *next_func(const unsigned char *rex) {
do { rex++; } while (*rex && rex[0]>>6 == 2); return rex;
}

Are you talking about something else? Perhaps I have misunderstood something somewhere.
What freediving can teach us about ourselves and kinship with the sea
When I reread these, I always pick up some details that I missed in the earlier reads:

- On the shortness of life
- Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Growth
- Show your work and Steal like an artist
- Domain modeling made functional
> pretty complicated(possibly impossible) without actually getting into the compiler
And it gets even heavier when wet.
Yeah, they're all pretty fantastic. Can even upgrade existing servers with more RAM/disk, or store ~250 TB of data for $400/mo etc.

Not to mention unlimited free 1 Gbit egress/server
The day Google started to get worse: 'We are getting too close to money'
I think we’re seeing market saturation at work. I suspect that most of the people that want, can afford, and are able to make an EV work for their needs already own them.

The truth is EVs are still more expensive than ICE vehicles, have significantly less range, and are a hard sell for rural America and anyone who doesn’t have the ability to charge at home.
Whenever the kill switches are off, nobody can track you, since the sensors have no power. The OS security arguments are moot.
Show HN: I've built a course platform over the weekend
Hey my name is Ivo and I'm a developer and a startup entusiast.

My girlfriend was out of the coutry for the weekend and I decided to do something cool like building a startup.

I've done a few startups over the years but that's the first I actually released, I would love to hear your feedback on it.
WinCE was an interesting beast. The ones we made were MIPS (picked over an ARM system). Running a wildly patched 2.12. Also your PCMCIA issues? Trust nothing. It could be anything. But my guess is it is the driver, as getting that type of flash card to work consistently and correctly takes a steady hand. Your flash could also be slightly corrupt. We had almost that exact same chipset and found it would randomly stop taking commands after awhile and the flash leveling would cause writes to time out leaving half written pages. You also discovered Visual C++ for wince has a lot of interesting bugs. I think it got so bad we were about to start breaking each method into one cpp file as things could 'smear' between methods before the whole thing went EoL. There are newer versions of the compiler that may help some (maybe you already have it). If you got into the right program (or the right company) you could get the ODM build set. Which would compile the whole OS (based on a very bespoke version of visual studio 6 and a crazy mixture of using mklink and crazy batch files). But it would also let you debug the drivers. As for my 'trust nothing' I mean it. The API calls that should 'just work' may randomly crash or leak. Good luck!
CDC is on it they just need to post some hand washing signs at the iss
Isn't the common use case that the equity in your home can be exchanged for elder care in your latter years?
If you want a grim take on this looking into the quantum immortality thought experiment. I can't remember who wrote it, I think maybe Chalmers, but the idea is that while the experiencer is immortal, they will still accumulate injuries, old age, etc. It would not be a very pleasant immortality.
I suspect they're not getting a dedicated server from Amazon. Anyone doing that is either foolish or is so locked into AWS infrastructure that it cost-wise makes more sense than to expand a network to another provider. Fun times, indeed.

What I started doing is just running my own "cloud" out of my house for personal projects. I have all of the things I need. There's some overhead in terms of maintenance and up-front setup cost in terms of time and equipment, but after that it's pretty smooth sailing.
What was your experience washing the various things you got from these places? Did it come out ok?

I'm used to doing cold water washes and hang drying everything, but even with that, some wool stuff... it seems you just look at it wrong and it shrinks in weird ways.

Alpacas are cute animals - there are a few ranches near where I live

https://photos.app.goo.gl/m8XTysD77HcpNx4r8
It's why they push it harder when theres a convenient excuse to raise prices. Less reputational or brand harm if you get to blame Middle East, OPEC, hurricanes, inflation, etc.

And for a lot of the big ones, they can always drop prices back and crush competitors before going back up.
Notqmail 1.09 Released
"Coastal" Cheddar [1] - Whole Foods sell it as "Seaside" Cheddar (but it's the same) - they sell it for approx 10x the price though.

[1]: https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/kirkland-signature-co...
Improving video quality on Discord Go Live on AMD GPUs
All I meant was that all companies ultimately care about is what is legally required, everything else ends up just being lip service and PR.

To your question though, the law justifies the law unfortunately. That's one big reason I'm opposed to laws and government in general. Something is legal because we said its legal, or more often its legal because a prior generation said it was legal. Put worse, something is punishable because we once wrote down that you would be punished for a specific act.
Just setup two Ubuntu 24.04 servers in last couple of days. One at Hetzner and another on AWS.
> This always felt like "treating the symptom, not the cause" approach to the problem.

Given the historical treatment of racial groups in the US, I'd say a little column A and a little column B. Racial minorities have not always been free to choose where they lived - redlining was only phased out in the late 60s and 70s.
Update:

Thanks for your recommendations everyone! We decided to go the route of measuring successful hits on the endpoint associated with our docs (inside our monitoring service). That's the default health check associated with our load balancer, so it gets hit periodically (built-in cron job). We just added a signoz alert that is triggered if the sum of those successful calls over the past X seconds falls below a threshold.
The New Propaganda War
A Guide: SAS Non-Linear Mixed Effects Model with Python
Find new AI products in a clean directory
Did you mean 5000KWh (air) and 2700KWh (water), or MWh for the second?

Also, 1000m3 in air is just a cube of 10m. It seems like a good illustration of the convenience of air vs water.
I've got a dedicated machine for $30/month. It's ancient, a xeon L5640 with 16 GB ram, and 1 TB spinning disk, but it's dedicated and it works great. Well actually, the first one stopped working well, and I got a replacement with double those specs for the same price; and the second one is working great. I also run with full disk encryption, because I don't trust their opsec on wiping drives, so that's a bit of a hassle to reboots, I have to get a console with IPMI and put in the disk password, although I saw something [1] last night that inspires me to consider the possibility of automation.

I recommend shopping at https://lowendbox.com/ and https://lowendtalk.com/categories/offers

[1] https://github.com/emtiu/freebsd-outerbase
There’s no way around the production of combustion byproducts, but as the article states this is managed with proper ventilation - something that most builders skimp on. With the current focus on tight air envelopes, this might actually get worse compared to our older leakier way of building and sealing homes.

There’s also an education and awareness aspect to this! If you’re aware of the risks, by all means get a gas stove and vent properly. However I bet the vast majority of Americans are unaware of the risks and their ventilation systems inadequacy
Looks like a CAD operator's interview, not an engineering interview. I guess the basic DFM question is marginally engineering.
It can happen. There is risk, but the reward is very high and so it is worth it.

However the government often will not allow you to get the full reward and so while the numbers work out for everhone in a free market it doesn't happen. adjustable rate mortgages in the us are lower interest rate. Often in the us they are a better deal - we are just looking at one case where everyone in a fixed rate two years ago is better off than those with adjustable rates.
https://archive.ph/2024.05.06-101808/https://www.bloomberg.c...
What jumps out in Apple context is mention of the word servers.
uh, yeah, they did.

Do you not cook or something?
I'm just browsing the site now. Did you purchase their books, courses, other?
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or not... like, fleece melts and natural fibers don't melt

if the writing on the tag, or the "we make it from recycled bottles" marketing material, etc didn't make it clear before that
The series of books published by Haese Mathematics used in the International Baccalaureate (IB) programs are quite good. Lots of worked out examples, practice sets and detailed answers to problems available. You can Google for free pdfs online and print the sections you need:

https://www.haesemathematics.com/international-baccalaureate...
I really wish Flynn[1] had taken hold before Kubernetes became so popular. Deploying and managing apps was a hell of a lot less complex, and very Heroku-like.

Sadly, it's no longer being developed as of 3-4y ago.

[1]: https://github.com/flynn/flynn
I'm sure Microsoft invested billions in this company so it could become a library.
Are you sure you're washing the clothing sufficiently, and that the detergent is working? I dry all my clothes on an indoor drying rack that gets zero direct sunlight, including 100% cotton items. I don't have any problems with washed items still smelling. Is the water chlorinated? Admittedly it's usually not tropical-level humidity here most of the time.
There's a 'Who is hiring?' thread on the first of each month where you can post openings, the rest of the time they're off-topic.
I absolutely love visidata : https://www.visidata.org

It’s a data exploration tool packed with features, but my regular use case is to just pipe some json into it to get a table view; it lets you easily explode nested fields into separate columns which I find tremendously helpful when digging
> The problem is not that the company may suffer “operational or economic consequences”. That could be true regardless of what he said, or whether he said anything at all. The problem is that the government is punishing the company for his publicly expressing an opinion.

This is a good point. The problem is not that the company may suffer consequences, the problem is that the company is suffering consequences.
You can send $10 for a floppy disk version!

http://www.nukefix.org/purchase.html
Piketty's book (Capital in the Twenty-First Century) is most definitely not a fad. It is a result of serious research into historical economic data and anyone intellectually honest ought take it seriously. As anything in the social science of economics, it is subject to debate, but to call it a 'fad' is odd, to put it mildly.
Also a dedicated VM is /literally/ a dedicated machine. It's in the name!
I arrived at a similar template by continually asking "what else would be helpful to know about me?"

I do find it to be more helpful than not, but naturally a lot of the things I ask about are not all that unique to me after all. The personality stuff tends to be most useful.
The original German article makes it clear it's only about the web front end and some ancillary services, not the video streaming service as such. The latter seems to be mostly Akamai-based.
Time for me to get a long position for AAPL stock.

Even better if Wall St. punishes APPL for it to go down further for absolutely no reason.

This is an obvious moat for Apple who can offer a cheaper alternative for training, inference AI server farms.

Won't be surprised for the re-introduction of Xserve again but for AI.
News on Facebook is dead–memes replace Australian media posts–Meta turns off tap
I have never had the pleasure of going to Costco as there isn't one in my town.
We had the ODM. Had to rewrite critical pieces of it to make it work at all. The timer service had races - we fixed it and offered the fixes back, but arrogant Microsoft wouldn't take them, they were smarter than us and didn't need our help. So we had to repatch every release as they shipped the same broken code again and again.

Had to rewrite the DHCP code, theirs was one run-on procedure written by some intern. Didn't handle half the cases, took forever to conclude if it ever did at all. We needed to roam across subnets on the order of 100's of ms. Theirs took seconds to maybe complete. Junk. They of course rejected that too.

Best if WinCE were buried and forgotten?
> And do you know what's cheaper than both? Fume extraction.

I suspect a cheap electric oven (400 bucks) is a lot cheaper than installing an entire venting system that, in many cases, will require drilling bricks and opening ceilings and walls.
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If you want to remove all agency from it, we can go there. They're seeing they can raise prices and not suffer (immediate) harm. So they do.

It's that simple. Maybe they can successfully pawn off blame for the price increases elsewhere (OPEC, inflation, whatever). But it tends to fall flat when you see record profits. We're getting squeezed for whatever they can get from us.
> What if your house collapses due to some event that is not covered by your insurance and you used all the capital to purchase it? This is as an extreme example as the market dropping 50%.

Quite a lot of people have experienced a market dropping 50% - not so many have seen their house collapse due to some event not covered by their insurance.
Automatic checking of cfgs at compile-time
You haven't changed my mind, I still think you ought to read Ostrom.

"Mankind does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does". (Friedrich Nietzsche)
> That isn't true.

People find out it is true when they try to sell something.

> If you wouldn't sell your house for $1M, then it is worth $1M to you

If you're willing to pay $1M for it, then it's worth that to you.
Hetzner does have a cloud VPS option, which is still very affordable:
https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

This is pretty heads-to-heads with EC2, in terms of how it works behind the scenes.
Yes. 99% of their offering is IED.
Kolmogorov-Arnold Network is just an MLP
Yeah, k3s doesn't buy 2 routers, 2 switches, 2 PDUs, 2 firewalls, 2 proxies to sit in front of k3s, 2 internet connections (if those are offered) etc etc the list goes on. Not to mention that HA things like to come in 3s.

Then if you are going to have remember that cloud networking is pretty beefy and if you want k3s to do distributed storage you will need some pretty beefy network hardware.

There are a lot of things hidden in the cloud costs that people forget about.

The one thing running your own stuff does allow you to do is make choices and trade offs. If this switch goes down and we have 6 hours of downtime to replace it what is that worth etc.
Hyperdisk is a SAN; it's not comparable to local storage. Unfortunately Google's local SSDs are also overpriced.
I'm surprised the author, given the thoughtfulness of much of the post, didn't decide to model tech debt, since then accumulated debt would be quantified frequently (if inaccurately).

Especially since they are optimizing for value-add work versus paying down tech debt, which the author acknowledges is what got the engineering org into a paying down tech hole that they are currently mired in before the author's tenure. For this reason, accumulated tech debt should be modeled in their bar charts too.

This is far preferable to letting tech debt grow and fester for several years. In a way, I find this possibility almost a regression by the author and possibly irresponsible. I.e. they didn't patch the underlying core issue (rest of org not understanding or assessing tech debt as a liability), and instead push a quantitative measure that actively encourages taking on unmeasured tech debt.
FAA opens probe into Boeing 787: 'Employees may have falsified aircraft records'
crypto hft
It's strange that you would trust a fund manager like Edward Chancellor over a trained anthropologist like Graeber on historical research. The price of time looks a at a small sliver of debt through the eye of interest rates and their impacts.

Chancellor's axe to grind is clear, that manipulation of interest rates by central governments has led to economic instability. Yet historically emperors, kings, and other rulers would periodically wipe the slate clear because debt enslaved too many people causing instability.

Read Graeber's book. It's better researched.
if you don't live there long term houses are a bad investment. Live in the same place for 20 years and it becomes much better.
They're saying the things that don't add value are muda (waste), not the foundational stuff. I only know that because my employer uses the same jargon. And since almost no one speaks phonetically-spelled-out Japanese, they always follow it with (waste) in parentheses
In Canada? Who was your lender? I did an exhaustive (I thought!) search when I last got a mortgage and could not find a fixed rate option that did not have a large prepayment penalty.
To my knowledge, CDC provides a solution to the following 2 pain points. Would love to hear more:

1. Replication: Imagine you have 5 different analytical environments. Do you backup & restore to each destination, essentially re-writing 10TB of data, when only 2MB worth of data changed? You'd be surprised how many organizations still do this.

2. System Triggering: How can you inform a downstream system an event occurred? There are many mechanisms to do so, and they vary in complexity, but given the requirements are simple (if a row in the DB changes, let's tag this change as an event and just pass it to all the downstream systems that need to know this)
Remember, leverage works both ways.
Could be done with a webcam even. It's known that facial skin color is affected subtly by pulses. There are plenty Python codes for that on GitHub.
"A Matter of risk" by Roy Varner and Wayne Coller is a book that covers the story with some interesting details about how this (incredible) operation was carried on.
Not saying that is how things should work, but that is often the reference point for those making decisions on the client side.
I have a theory that Tesla fucked up by getting the industry to standardize on their chargers. Now I don't need a Tesla to use the least obnoxious charger network.

If the charger construction and maintenance arm of Tesla is robust enough to keep the company in the black, that might not be a bad thing overall. But it's going to shift their mix.

It will free up capacity in their battery plants and it'll be interesting to see how this affects what verticals they chase. More power banks? Power banks at charging stations to allow charge locations to have more chargers (peak shaving)? More grid stabilization sites?
Anyone who has experience with AWS or is looking to hire candidates with known skills. AWS is the industry standard. A lot of quality candidates know it and use it, because it pays the best and has the most job opportunities. And most companies use it because they were first to market and its easy to find candidates.

I'd argue that startups should have a good reason for not using AWS. The costs for their basic services is not that much compared to the cost of development.
It is a interesting idea, although there may be some problems too. Maybe it will help, though.

Note that X window system already has the ability for programs to specify a minimim and maximum size hint, aspect ratio, and other things. This isn't new (maybe in Wayland it is new, but in X it isn't new since it is already there).